The title centres around mob enforcer Joe Fitzgerald, who does not realize that his last hit has sent him up against a demonologist.

Brought to the brink of death, Joe makes a deal with an angelic force to fight for good in return for brief reunions with his dead lover.

"The temptation to bring back Joe's Comics has been very powerful over the last few years, but I really wanted to wait until I had a collection of stories that I absolutely had to tell, that, like Midnight Nation, wouldn't let me go until they were told," said Straczynski.

"Stories that could be dark, funny, deeply personal but also played out on a large stage in terms of action. As those started to show up over the last few years - often in the middle of the night, which is why Joe's Comics bears the slugline 'Where it's always five minute to midnight' - I began to pull them together until I felt I had what I needed, and made the deal with Image to move forward."

Straczynski announced the return of the Top Cow Productions imprint at San Diego Comic-Con International 2012.